{"id":826,"date":"2009-03-15T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2009-03-23T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T07:55:02","slug":"new-ipod-shuffle-sports-huge-design-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/15\/new-ipod-shuffle-sports-huge-design-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"New iPod shuffle sports huge design flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/ipodshuffleflaw.jpg\" alt=\"Massive Flaw\" \/>So, Apple have brought out yet another generation of iPod shuffle (what was wrong with the previous one I don&#8217;t know).<\/p>\n<p>Now, as expected, the memory increases, but someone at Apple has decided that the previous shuffle wasn&#8217;t small enough and designed a smaller version at the expense of any actual controls on the unit so the controls have been moved to cable on the right earphone. What if you don&#8217;t want to use Apple&#8217;s supplied earphones? You&#8217;re snookered. Why couldn&#8217;t they have duplicated these controls on the unit? It&#8217;s only three buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Even before iPods, I had a portable minidisc player but found the supplied ear-bud Sony earphones useless, not anything to do with sound quality, but simply that unless I held my head perfectly still (say, in a vice) they would not stay in my ears. When I went back to the shop I found I was far from alone; I therefore bought a pair of &#8216;in ear&#8217; earphones that I have used with every iPod since. None of the ear-bud iPod earphones have ever got out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Apple say that third party earphone manufacturers will be making compatible earphones but why should I have to pay out for another set when I have a perfectly usable pair. This needless extra expense is on top of the price hike on the previous version.<\/p>\n<p>The other problem is that some people will want to plug it into a set of speakers rather than earphones; again how are you supposed to control it then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Apple have brought out yet another generation of iPod shuffle (what was wrong with the previous one I don&#8217;t know). Now, as expected, the memory increases, but someone at Apple has decided that the previous shuffle wasn&#8217;t small enough and designed a smaller version at the expense of any actual controls on the unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,211,110],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-ipod-shuffle","tag-poor-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}